1. National Education Cluster meeting
Monday 6th March 2017
Skype – KatyNoble.HST
Skype – mugabi-fred
Skype – Abdirisak09
Skype – Samirizzat
Skype – ashihan

2. Introduction from both MoE

3. Previous Meeting Action Points
Responsible
Status
UNHCR to share all their refugee (including out-of-school) data with the Cluster.
UNHCR
Presenting today, but full data / summary report available soon.
UNICEF to meet with MoE KRG regarding criteria for payment of transportation incentives.
MoE KRG
MoE KRG to provide criteria for Principal selection and UNICEF can proceed.
Partners to share the reports of any education assessment conducted to the Cluster.
Partners
Some partners have shared, but others are encouraged to do the same!
MoE Federal to share lists of schools where they need teacher training, to see if partners can help.
MoE Federal
Received
MoE Federal to provide Cluster with DoE Focal Points for Mosul camps by next week
Done and shared with Mosul EiE partners.
Partners to contact the Cluster for Kobo assessment log-in details
Some partners now have log in details, but others are encouraged to do the same!

4. West Mosul update
7,619 families displaced since the military operation started last weekend - 45,714 people, over 16,000 of which are school-aged children (IOM, DTM).
Highest number of displaced people per day since the offence started in October.
Mustering points:
Scorpion Junction – many people arriving & gathering for buses, not an official screening site (no National Security laptops / databases) but body checks. Some services in this site (water, biscuits & blankets)
Abu Saif – less civilians here, 1 tent for people to wait, Fed Pol. minibuses to transfer them to HAA for processing and registration.
Screening:
HAA is the central screening site for Khazer / HAA etc
Transported by ISF trucks & MoMD buses to HAA from Al - Aghrab checkpoint (south of Mamoun quarter inside Mosul City)
CCCM assessment of schools in Namrod to be used as shelter (ACTED)

5. West Mosul - DTM
2nd March: 524 families/2,870 individuals. The majority of new arrivals were settled in Khazer/MoMD Camp (M1).
3rd March: 475 families/2,852 individuals. The majority of new arrivals were settled in Hasansham/MoMD Camp (M2 aka. Sewdinan), phase 2.
4th March: Additional families have been arriving during the Sunday and settled in Hasansham/MoMD Camp (M2 aka. Sewdinan), phase 2. and Hasansham U3 Camp. No final statistics are available yet.

7. West Mosul update
New arrivals are from the following areas in West Mosul:
Tel-Ruman, Rajm, Maamoon, Tayran, Danadan, Nablis, Obur, Ghizlani, Yarmok, Dur Alsuker and Wadi-Hajar.
They are dehydrated and famished. Families arrive tired and traumatized and in need of PFA and PSS. The main reasons for flight are airstrikes, fear of car bombs/snipers and extreme lack of food, water and services. 
INSO’s control of neighbourhood tracking website
West Mosul OCHA Sitrep (1st March):
HAA:

8. East Mosul update
UNICEF partners supporting 250 schools in East Mosul with:
Teaching and learning materials - Mine risk education
Minor school rehabilitations - PSS
If any other partner has funds to respond in East Mosul, please contact the Cluster for the list of schools still need support!
Deceleration of reported attacks on schools (only 1 report in the last 7 days).
Partners reminded to inform Mosul Mayor directly about their plans (see form attached with the minutes)
Cluster is meeting with Mosul Mayor in East Mosul tomorrow.
Latest OCHA update:

9. USING MOBILE TECHNOLOGY TO COLLECT DATA AND REPORT ON ATTACKS ON EDUCATION
Feasibility Study
Iraq | March – August 2017
Education Cluster || March 2017

10. WHO WE ARE
Thrive is a social enterprise that leverages technology and innovation to create education and livelihoods opportunities and protect human rights in times of crisis and insecurity. Thrive was founded with the belief that humanitarian and development organizations can work better, and faster, when responding to crisis. Our approach is to create small teams of experts who combine technology, smart policy and business innovation to bring about real and sustainable change to vulnerable communities.
Education Above All (EAA) is a Qatar-based international NGO established in response to attacks on education. With a particular focus on those affected by poverty, conflict and disaster, EAA champions the needs of children, youth and women to empower them to become active members of their communities.
An EAA program, Protect Education in Insecurity and Conflict (PEIC) promotes and protects the right to education. As a policy, research and advocacy organization, PEIC’s aim is to ensure that the international community recognizes and minimizes the harm caused by insecurity and conflict.
Education Cluster || March 2017

11. THE PROJECT
CONTEXT
Education Above All is leading the creation of a Global Data Service (GDS) that is expected to serve as a central repository of data and analysis on attacks on education. At present, there is no central repository of information that collects data from multiple sources. The GDS would be a critical tool for triggering and informing immediate responses, raising public awareness, and potentially aiding the prevention of future attacks.
DESCRIPTION
The purpose of the feasibility study in Iraq is to understand and develop a best practice framework for mobile data collection on attacks on education in a customized, verifiable and secure manner. This will involve testing existing technologies that allow for data collection via mobile phones and tablets in both online and offline contexts.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
Identify & Select Users
User Training
User Testing
Secure Database Server
Information Management
Education Cluster || March 2017

12. TIMELINE Mobile Data Collection in Iraq
Mobile Penetration and Connectivity
March 15
Stakeholders
May 23
August
User Testing in the KRI and newly liberated areas
User testing in newly liberated areas and other selected areas
April 12
July 2
Start of the Project
Midterm Evaluation
Final Report
Education Cluster || March 2017

13. HOW YOU CAN COLLABORATE
Share your experience using mobile technology for collecting data or reporting on human rights violations in Iraq or elsewhere.
Help identify potential users in organizations and local communities for user-testing.
Give input on the electronic data collection form, user training and data security practices.
Support user-testing in areas where access is limited (e.g. newly liberated areas).
Participate in interviews, focus group discussions and training.
Share unpublished research that your organization may have done on mobile penetration, attacks on education or other related topic.
CONTACT
Marcello Bonatto
Project Lead, Thrive
Phone: | (whatsapp)
Skype: bonattm
Education Cluster || March 2017

14. Refugee education - UNHCR
See separate slideshow

15. Refugee education Libraries for refugee students:
A new and exciting effort to bring together resources and assets to help libraries serve refugees.
It is an ongoing, fluid, and mobile effort to bring information and resources to library services to refugee populations.
Website has best practices, toolkits, case studies, government resources, NGO partnership possibilities, and asset development
Innovative refugee education projects:
The Promising Practices in Refugee Education Project aims to shine a light on great work that often goes unnoticed.
If you are doing an exciting project, whether big or small, that’s addressing the educational needs of refugee children or youth, please submit your project for global recognition!
Selected projects will be given technical support to develop case studies about their work along with a small grant of $1,000 (cover the costs associated with the documentation process)
The deadline for submitting your project is March 31st 2017.

16. Syria Pledging Conference
The post-London Syria pledging Conference is going to be held in Brussels on 6th & 7th April.
Education is high on the agenda and we are preparing a ‘Post-London Education Report’ to ensure refugee education in Iraq is on the agenda and needs/gaps raised up to the donors.
We have til 9th March to submit this for compilation with the other countries (Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan & Egypt).
Refugee Education partners are required to attend a quick consultation workshop today (6th March) straight after this Cluster meeting! Free lunch 
A similar workshop will be held in Dohuk on 7th March at 2pm, in PIN’s office.
The London Education Strategic Paper (Feb 2016) & the London Education Progress Report (Sept 2016) here: Syria Crisis Education Strategic Paper and Syria Crisis Education Strategic Paper, London Progress Report.

17. Federal Minister of Education letter
Please refer to the 3 MoE letters on the tables.
They are from the Federal Minister of Education, addressed to the DoEs.
The letters stress the importance of:
Only Baghdad-registered agencies allowed to operate in Federal Iraq on education.
Need for clear communication of partners’ school rehabilitation plans to MoE.  They do not want duplication of school rehabilitations being done by authorities / Gov..
I have reached out to the Minister’s team to get clarification on exactly how the MoE want plans to be communicated (template, frequency, to who, etc).  But this just really emphasizes how important it is to have you Federal DoE counterparts in all of your Sub-National meetings, so that they are often meeting with partners and hearing all the partner plans verbally every 2 weeks.   We would hope/expect that this information is then fed up by the DoE to the MoE…
Please share these messages with all your partners in your upcoming meetings on the need to coordinate with DoE!  We may also be asked by MoE to set up a new reporting system specifically for school rehab plans, but I’ll wait to hear from Minister’s Team on this

18. Integrated EiE/CP programming
Who implements Education projects + Child Protection projects?
The Education Cluster and Child Protection Sub-Cluster strongly encourage ‘integrated programming’ – where projects support children with education and child protection response.
Joint Cluster Guidance Note being rolled out this week, with tips and advice on how to do integrated programming.
Reminder to CP agencies that children should only stay in Child Friendly Spaces (CFS) for a short amount of time (30-60 days maximum). Children should enter TLS or formal schooling as soon as they can.
If teachers aren’t available for non-formal or formal education, then joint advocacy to DoE from both education and CP partners on this!

19. What Education partners can do to support
CP response:
Inform CP partners on community groups they can work with
Report any CP issues including through PTA
Follow up and ensure CP referral pathways are in place after set-up
Distribute CP leaflets and any related CP reading materials
Follow up with teachers after CP trainings, such as PFA utilisation
Support in the set up of referral systems for vulnerable children
Information sharing with CP/GP on protection threats or explosive hazards
Data collection – ensure disaggregation to support CP response
Use INEE MS to ensure school spaces are safe and protective

20. What CP partners can do to support
Education response:
Train teachers on Child Protection in Emergencies, Psychological First Aid, Identification and referral of at risk and vulnerable children
Incorporate questions about education in the interaction with caregivers and community members during awareness sessions
Train teachers on referral system so that those working in education facilities can quickly and efficiently refer children for protection needs to CP workers
Coordinate with EDU and MRM for any threat related with attacks on schools
Incorporate EDU questions in CP assessments and coordinate with EDU partners
Mobile child protection teams will identify out-of-school children, and refer to most appropriate education facility
Train PTA on Child Protection and identification of at risk children and ensure linkages between PTAs and Child Protection Committees

21. Mosul Crisis Response: Education Dashboard 5 March 2017
Funding required: $10m Current Funding: $38%
Current No. Partners: 9
Among the recently displaced people by the Mosul emergency, 35% are school aged children.
children displaced
67,139
Type of Org
Out of this, 16,883 are boys & 15,117 girls participating in non-formal education in camp settings.
children accessing EiE
32,000
Major EiE Activities
Trained on psychosocial support, psychological first aid and emergency education.
teachers/facilitators trained
389
Teachers & PTAs
35,139 IDP children still in
need of EiE support
EiE Response vs Gaps
Challenges
- Unpaid teacher salaries
- Insufficient number of textbooks
- Limited funding

22. Who reported on AI (IDPs)?

23. Who reported on AI (Refugee)?

24. Benefits of School Level Reporting?
School Level Reporting on AI – from next months!
Benefits of School Level Reporting?
Enhance coordination
Estimation of coverage and Gaps in response
Visualize/Map the schools supported
Improve data collection and control
Minimize duplication
Rationalization of response
Out of school children
Partners can access/view all schools/data
Governorate
District
Location
School

25. Reminder: Information Management feeds into the HPC

26. Information Management
Activity Info training videos:
Youtube (English) : For the Syrian Refugee Database
Youtube (Kurdish) : For the Syrian Refugee Database
Youtube (Arabic) :  For the IDP Database
Youtube (English) : For the IDP Database
Google mapping of assessments:
Assessments – kobo log-in needed?

27. Multi-Cluster Needs Assessment IV
Education Cluster
Erbil, 6 March 2017

28. Background to MCNA IV
Objective: Cluster-driven process that provides comprehensive evidence base of needs amongst internally displaced populations (IDPs) living in non camp- settings across the whole of Iraq.
Type of assessment: MCNAs focus on the needs, perceptions and vulnerabilities of IDPs outside of camps at household level; how they prioritise their needs and view quality of assistance (across all sectors).
Provides ‘big picture’, comparative overview (nation-wide, district and governorate level) based on primary data, for specific sectors.
Ideally used as evidence-base by clusters to guide HNO/HRP process, and complement cluster-driven interventions.
Recurring , nation-wide, longitudinal analysis: The MCNA IV is a nation- wide assessment, and will collect comparable data at the district-level in Centre-South for the third time, and for the fourth time in KRI.
Nation-wide scope allows for country-wide comparisons at the governorate and district level.
MCNA is the only assessment which allows for nation-wide analysis of trends over time (third year in a row).
Background
Methodology
Indicator Review
Q&A

29. Overview of MCNA cycle Research design
Background
Methodology
Indicator Review
Q&A
Research design
Indicators, forming the basis of the survey tool, are reviewed at the cluster-level ahead of data collection.
Data collection
Majority of data is collected directly by REACH. For some inaccessible areas partners collect data.
Preliminary findings
Preliminary findings presentations are held with all operational clusters (within 1-2 weeks of data collection).
Analysis
Cluster feedback informs in-depth analysis tailored to cluster-specific needs and triangulation of data.
Dissemination
Final output and cluster-specific findings shared with cluster partners including the open access dataset.

30. MCNA IV and HNO/HRP process
HRP Alignment: MCNAs usually align with the HNO/HRP process to inform multi-cluster programming.
Cluster-driven assessment: Cluster leads are included throughout the process.
Open access dataset: clean dataset with cluster leads for dissemination, and can be used as a resource for additional data analysis.
Open access dataset: clean dataset to be shared this week among cluster leads to allow for more in-depth anaylsis by IMOs
Background
Methodology
Indicator Review
Q&A
2017 HRP
HRP Advanced Executive Summary version launched in mid-December due to Mosul offensive with possibility of a revised version to be published later on (without preliminary HNO).
Funding allocations for international partners to begin within the next few weeks based on project portfolios submitted in January 2017.
Why MCNA IV?
Will provide up to date needs information to aid planning for interventions going forward (across sectors) and can inform potential HRP 2017 Review.
Aiming to be disseminated by June 2017, this is timely as there is a significant gap in a comprehensive needs assessment (over 1 year since the last MCNA).
Will be supplemented with MCNA V ahead of HRP 2018 process.

31. Methodology Coverage Sampling
Background
Methodology
Indicator Review
Q&A
Coverage
Whole of Iraq assessment (security permitting), which plans to cover:
18 Governorates (based on accessibility and not all districts).
75% of districts to be covered (82 of the 109 districts will be covered that have an IDP presence).
Areas omitted due to security include: Anbar (6 districts), Baghdad (8 districts), Erbil (2 districts), Kirkuk (Hawiga), Ninewa (7 districts) and Salah -al-Din (5 districts).
Extended coverage from MCNA III: Partial access to Kirkuk, Salah -al-Din and Anbar.
Data collection conducted by trained national enumerators starting in mid-March and to complete in mid- April.
Sampling
Household level data collection with significant results at governorate level, with a 95% confidence level and 10% margin of error; and a district level significance with a 90% confidence level and 10% margin of error.
Cluster sampling using GIS points based off IOM DTM data on IDP population size and respective location in Iraq.

32. Methodology Coverage of areas during previous MCNA (III) Background
Indicator Review
Q&A

33. Indicator Review Indicator Review Process:
Using the indicators from the previous MCNA III round:
Cluster Coordinator to disseminate to all partners for review;
Consolidated feedback to be provided to REACH by 12 March (1 week period);
REACH reviews and, if needed, amends the tool and analytical frame in response to feedback.
Key considerations:
Minor revisions only to enable longitudinal trend analysis. Please keep in mind that this tool has undergone full cluster review three times prior to this round.
Please review based on relevance; if something is agreed as no longer relevant than can be removed.
Additional indicators can only be included by deleting another indicator, so would require a strong rationale and clarity on which indicator would be removed.
REACH can opt to keep an indicator if deemed crucial to other clusters or general longitudinal analysis.
Background
Methodology
Indicator Review
Q&A

34. Q&A Indicator Review REACH contacts:
Background
Methodology
Indicator Review
Q&A
Q&A
REACH contacts:
Tessa Richardson:
Homera Cheema:

35. Mine Risk Education stickers
We hope you are all busy reaching out to the Mine Action Sub Cluster to establish partnerships with accredited Mine Risk Education agencies!
Whilst you are doing this, and to complement the accredited MRE sessions in your schools/TLS, we are hoping to receive DMA Mine Risk Education stickers from the government.
If you haven’t already submitted your request to the Cluster, please fill out the sheet at the end of the meeting.
Sara (UNMAS) will then very kindly ask the DMA if they can issue Education partners with some stickers 
In the meantime…. Please try and show these videos in your TLS/schools:  

36. GBV Focal Point
We are very sad to see Camille (TGH) leave Iraq – she has been a great support to the Cluster in her role as GBV Focal Point 
We need to fill this important role – which agencies are interested?
Q&A to Camille for what the role entails!

37. Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) membership
What is the ‘SAG’?
A small group of Iraq EiE experts who help direct the Education response
Involved in Cluster decision-making, reviewing of tools, drafting of advocacy messages, etc
The NNGO in the SAG represents and is the voice of all other NNGOs in the Cluster.
2 spaces for National NGOs!
Expression of Interest for 2 National NGOs to apply for these seats!
Deadline for submission: 13th March COB

38. Sub-National meetings
Centre South: 26th March, 10am, NCCI Baghdad
Dahuk: 13th March (Mosul meeting), 2pm, venue tbc (PIN?)
Erbil: 20th March, 9am, SCI office
Kirkuk: 26th March, 10.30am, SCI office (MORE EDUCATION ACTORS NEEDED IN KIRKUK – CALL FOR ACTION!)
Sulaymaniah: 14th March, 10am, DoE office
Tikrit: 8th March, 11am, Sorouh office

39. Next meeting: Monday 20th March 2017
Thank you!
Next meeting: Monday 20th March 2017
Skype – KatyNoble.HST
Skype – mugabi-fred
Skype – Abdirisak09
Skype – Samirizzat
Skype – ashihan